Florida International University – EXCELLENCE ELEVATED

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

EXCELLENCE ELEVATED

DISCOVER MIAMI’S PUBLIC RESEARCH UNIVERSITY

AS VIBRANT AND RELEVANT AS THE CITY IT CALLS HOME, FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY IS A MAJOR PUBLIC RESEARCH UNIVERSITY LEADING IN STUDENT SUCCESS AND RESEARCH EXCELLENCE.

When FIU opened for classes in Miami in 1972, our single campus was located on the site of an abandoned airport. In 50 years, our physical footprint has grown to include a branch campus and multiple academic locations in South Florida, uplifting and accelerating student success and helping to drive the transformational growth of Miami.

Today FIU serves a diverse student body of more than 56,000 students who choose from among 200+ majors in their quest for bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees. Our Carnegie R1 university offers the full range of academic and research experiences while maintaining every standard of excellence. Thanks to the efforts of our students, faculty, staff and alumni, we are ever-closer to our goal of becoming a U.S. News Top 50 public research university.

JUST GETTING STARTED.

Founded in a city that some consider one of the most important in America today*, FIU is imbued with an optimism and drive that challenge us daily to do more for our students and our community. In the process, we are rewriting the narrative of what it means to be a public research university in the 21st century.

FIU jumped six spots in U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 rankings to No. 72 among public universities in the nation, continuing an upward trajectory that began years ago. This latest improvement makes FIU the fastest-rising university in the country in the last 10 years in the U.S. News public university rankings.

The jump in the U.S. News rankings comes on the heels of a banner few years for FIU that include: Placing in the top three among Florida’s public universities in three of the last five years in the Florida Board of Governors’ performance metrics; ranking No. 32 among all universities in Washington Monthly’s annual rankings; ranking No. 8 among all universities and No. 3 among public universities for economic ROI in a college degree in Degree Choice’s rankings; receiving a $40 million donation from philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott that recognizes FIU’s social mobility and excellence initiatives; and being elected to APSIA, an elite network of schools of international and public affairs that has only 38 members worldwide.

FIU has jumped

62 SPOTS

in the last decade, the fastest-rising university in the country from 2013-2023 in the U.S. News public university rankings

*“How Miami Became the Most Important City in America,” Financial Times, Feb. 3, 2022. Joel Stein

POINTS OF PRIDE

ACADEMIC VALUE

#72

Public Universities

U.S. News & World Report

APSIA

Full Membership Awarded 2021

National University Washington Monthly

RESEARCH & INNOVATION

$282M

Research Expenditures FY 2022

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

TOP 5

Social Mobility

U.S. News & World Report

TOP 10

Economic ROI in a college degree Degree Choices

#32 TOP 20

Public Universities for U.S. Utility Patents Intellectual Property Owners Association

One of only 25 in the U.S. and 38 in the World

TOP 15

MOST INNOVATIVE Public Universities

U.S. News & World Report

50% of undergraduate student body is eligible for Pell Grants

FIU IS A TOP PRODUCER OF FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS

#1 TOP 10

Awarding Bachelor’s Degrees to African Americans

Awarding Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees to Hispanics

FIU AT A GLANCE

11,241

50 states + District of Columbia

330,000+

6 FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

TWO CAMPUSES. MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. INFINITE POSSIBILITIES.

OUR HOME IS UNLIKE ANY COLLEGE TOWN IN AMERICA.

Opportunities abound when you’re located in one of the world’s most dynamic cities. Whether it’s environmental resilience, international business, hospitality management or Miami’s exploding tech scene, we leverage our location in ways that elevate the student experience and move our community forward.

The university also offers intriguing educational opportunities beyond Florida. Our office in Washington, D.C., employs an integrated advocacy approach to increase the national reputation and federal support for FIU’s preeminent research areas, faculty and students. Internationally, opportunities for our students to experience global citizenship firsthand exist in Colombia and Italy.

Engineering Center

Everglades National Park, Biscayne National Park, Biscayne Bay and the Florida Keys benefit from FIU’s critical research efforts to understand and protect South Florida’s unique ecosystems and resources.

South Florida is experiencing an unprecedented tech boom. FIU has graduated more than 5,000 computer science and IT professionals in recent years and is ramping up efforts to meet ongoing demand.

1,400 multinational companies do business in MiamiDade County. Our students are overwhelmingly multilingual and multicultural and graduate from FIU ready to contribute immediately to the global economy.

Modesto A. Maidique Campus

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IS THE MOST POPULOUS COUNTY IN FLORIDA AND THE SEVENTH MOST POPULOUS COUNTY IN THE UNITED STATES

with 2.7 million people spread across 2,431 square miles. More than half of Miami-Dade residents – 52.9 percent –are foreign born. Its geographic location in southern Florida makes it the perfect Gateway to the Americas.

• Miami-Dade is home to 34 incorporated cities and many unincorporated areas

• Miami-Dade County is home to the nation’s fourth-largest public K-12 school system with nearly 360,000 students.

• Miami International Airport is the third largest U.S. airport for international passengers and first for international flights.

• PortMiami broke the world passenger record in 2018 with nearly 5.6 million passengers.

• Six professional sports teams call South Florida home: Miami Dolphins, Miami Heat, Miami Marlins, Florida Panthers, Miami FC and InterMiami.

Biscayne Bay Campus

FIU Downtown

Brickell

Aquarius Reef Base

Wolfsonian Museum

MBUS

Jewish Museum

MMC

6,000 OBJECTS IN THE SMITHSONIAN-AFFILIATED PATRICIA AND PHILLIP FROST ART MUSEUM’S PERMANENT COLLECTION.

MODESTO A. MAIDIQUE CAMPUS

344 ACRES

35,700 STUDENTS

Our flagship campus in western Miami-Dade opened for classes as an upper-division institution in 1972. Today MMC is the heartbeat of our Carnegie R1 research university. Our urban campus features a thriving student presence and all the offerings of a major research university: academic space, research labs, libraries, residential housing, on-campus recreation center, dining options, a bookstore, an art museum, a performing arts center and multiple on-campus sports facilities including a football stadium, basketball arena, baseball stadium and tennis and soccer facilities.

4,000 STUDENTS LIVING ON CAMPUS

A new 125,000-square-foot engineering building is being built on MMC and scheduled for completion in 2023. The six-story facility will house makerspace labs, active learning classrooms and research laboratories.

Our Biscayne Bay Campus is approximately one hour away via the turnpike or expressway. Shuttle buses run between MMC, the Engineering Center and BBC multiple times a day.

200 ACRES 4,500 STUDENTS

Ph.D. student Carlos Velez and undergraduate student researcher Briana Gonzalez measure an origami reflectarray antenna for CubeSat applications at the Transforming Antennas Center, which is directed by Professor Stavros Georgakopoulos.

BISCAYNE BAY CAMPUS

Our waterfront Biscayne Bay Campus – FIU’s branch campus – opened in 1977. It is home to our nationally ranked Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, marine sciences program and initiatives of the College of Communication, Architecture + the Arts. The campus offers undergraduate majors and selected graduate programs. In addition to its academic spaces and research labs, BBC features residential housing, a food court, library, aquatic center with Olympicsized pool and diving well, teaching restaurant and major conference center.

BBC includes MAST@FIU, a Miami-Dade County public high school that enjoys a collaborative partnership with the university.

In partnership with Royal Caribbean Cruise Ltd., BBC features the ROYAL@FIU World Stage Collaborative, a 130,000-squarefoot, state-of-the-art rehearsal and production studio. BBC also houses FIU’s Immersive Studio for Altered Reality.

OUR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & COMPUTING CENTER IS APPROXIMATELY TWO MILES FROM MMC.

COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS

FIU is one of the country’s largest public research institutions and emphasizes research as a major component of its mission. Our colleges and schools reflect the width and breadth of the university’s research interests and activities:

HOME SWEET HOME: The 4,000 students who live in the Modesto A. Maidique Campus dorms (many of which are pictured here) are part of a dynamic living-learning community that is steps away from the academic heart of the university. They are joined by thousands more students who live in neighborhoods surrounding the campus as part of a university-city partnership.

Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management

College of Arts, Sciences & Education (CASE)

• School of Education and Human Development

• School of Environment, Arts and Society (SEAS)

• School of Integrated Science and Humanity

College of Business

• Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Graduate School of Business

• R. Kirk Landon Undergraduate School of Business

• School of Accounting

• Tibor and Sheila Hollo School of Real Estate

College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts (CARTA)

• School of Architecture

• School of Communications

• Herbert and Nicole Wertheim School of Music & Performing Arts

• Lee Caplin School of Journalism & Media

College of Engineering & Computing

• Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences

• Moss School of Construction, Infrastructure and Sustainability

• School of Universal Computing, Construction, and Engineering Education (SUCCEED)

College of Law

Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

Honors College

Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work

• School of Social Work

Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA)

University Graduate School

HERBERT WERTHEIM COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

South Florida’s first public medical school welcomed its inaugural class of 43 students in Fall 2009. Today it is the nation’s most diverse public medical school, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 Best Graduate Schools rankings.

Diversity is an integral component of the medical school’s academic enterprise. The blending of different life and cultural experiences is critically important in selecting faculty, staff and students and in educating future physicians, physician assistants and biomedical researchers. Forty-six percent of students in the Class of 2025 come from minority groups that are underrepresented in medicine. Twenty percent of the class are first generation students.

GREEN FAMILY FOUNDATION NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH EDUCATION LEARNING PROGRAM

The Green Family Foundation Neighborhood Health Education Learning Program (NeighborhoodHELP) is an award-winning program that empowers medical students to visit underserved communities in teams including nursing, social work and physician assistant students, with education and law students available as needed. Patient and household histories are taken during household visits, and students develop care plans.

Since 2014, nearly 3,000 FIU students have made more than 14,000 household visits serving more than 3,400 members.

The medical school provides health care services to NeighborhoodHELP communities through two mobile health centers. In addition, the Linda Fenner 3D Mobile Mammography Center provides mammograms for underserved women throughout Miami-Dade County.

More than 6,000 patients have received health services through the NeighborhoodHELP Mobile Health Center Program, and more than 5,000 women have received free screening mammograms.

COLLEGE OF LAW

FIU Law is a leader in Bar preparation.

88% of graduates since July 2015 have passed the Bar exam on their first attempt.

South Florida’s only public law school opened in August 2002 and offers both full-time and part-time programs, delivering the personalized educational experience law students want. In only two decades, FIU Law has earned prestigious accolades for its programs, faculty and students.

TOP 50

Ranking of seven of FIU Law’s specialty programs among U.S. public law schools, according to the 2023 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools Rankings

TOP 25

Ranking by The Princeton Review for Academic Experience

#11 #4

Ranking in The National Jurist’s annual assessment of the nation’s Best Value Law Schools. This is the third consecutive year FIU Law is in the publication’s Top 15 for overall value.

Most Diverse Faculty ranking by The Princeton Review. This is the highest ranking among Florida law schools.

2021 GAMBRELL PROFESSIONALISM AWARD

WELL-BEING AT FIU LAW WAS HONORED WITH THIS AWARD RECOGNIZING INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS THAT HELP MAINTAIN THE HIGHEST PRINCIPLES OF INTEGRITY AND DEDICATION TO THE LEGAL PROFESSION AND THE PUBLIC.

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION.

CARTA MANA WYNWOOD

FIU has created a presence locally, nationally and internationally that reflects our commitment to strategic partnerships, compelling discovery and critical research. Whether it’s in our nation’s capital, the Florida Keys or Miami Beach, FIU is everywhere our students and the communities we serve need us to be.

Located in one of Miami’s most culturally rich neighborhoods, CARTA Mana Wynwood is for student learning, exhibitions, concerts and staged readings. It will eventually house architectural design studios and the student-run South Florida Media Network’s Wynwood News Desk.

FIU ONLINE

More than 10,000 students have completed fully online degrees in the 20+ years FIU has had an online presence. Today, 45,000+ students annually choose from among 1,500 online courses that parallel the academic rigor of the classroom.

JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA-FIU (JMOF-FIU)

Located in a pair of adjoining historic former synagogues in South Beach, JMOF-FIU is the only museum dedicated to telling the story of more than 250 years of Florida Jewish history, arts and culture.

THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU

Located in Miami Beach’s Art Deco District, The WolfsonianFIU is a museum, library and research center that uses its vast collection covering the period 1885 to 1945 to illustrate the persuasive power of art and design.

NATIONAL FORENSIC SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CENTER

Part of FIU’s Global Forensic and Justice Center since 2018, NFSTC is located in Largo, Florida, and works with laboratory, law enforcement and military professionals to improve forensic science practice in the United States and around the world.

WORLD LOCATIONS

In 2021, the university established its first two official World Centers in Italy and Colombia. These hubs are facilitating collaborative learning, teaching, research and engagement opportunities abroad.

FIU DOWNTOWN ON BRICKELL

Located in the business district in downtown Miami, our Brickell location offers our top-ranked MBA programs in the Chapman Graduate School of Business as well as programs for CASE and the College of Engineering & Computing.

FIU AT I-75

Located in Broward County, FIU at I-75 offers programs from CASE, College of Business, School of Education and the College of Engineering & Computing. Students can attend morning and evening classes on weekdays and fast-track programs on weekends.

AQUARIUS REEF BASE

This underwater habitat is located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Deployed 60 feet beneath the surface, it is a globally significant asset to study the ocean, test and develop undersea technology, train specialized divers and more.

INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL BOTANY

Located at The Kampong in Coconut Grove, the historical estate of plant explorer David Fairchild and one of five National Tropical Botanical Garden sites, ICTB develops research, education and outreach programs related to tropical botany.

CENTER FOR TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE (CTS)

CTS is part of a complex in Port St. Lucie, Florida – approximately two hours from MMC –that is dedicated to investigative medicine. The complex includes a hospital and separate research facility both run by the Cleveland Clinic.

MIAMI BEACH URBAN STUDIOS (MBUS)

MBUS hosts an array of exhibitions, classes, research labs and events for CARTA’s School of Architecture. The space includes an innovation lab that is one of the largest 3D printing laboratories of its kind in the country.

FIU IN DC

FIU in DC highlights faculty research, provides students with academic and internship experiences, leverages alumni leadership and amplifies FIU’s voice at the national level. These efforts are helping FIU forge new federal, corporate and international partnerships.

REAL IMPACT

FIU is a Carnegie-designated R1 very high research activity university, something only 3 percent of the nation’s 4,300 colleges and universities can claim. Our students and researchers are addressing the world’s most complex challenges as they create a more sustainable future for us all. In the process, our growing research program is igniting new industries, businesses and economic development across the state.

TOP 10

Strategic partnerships. Compelling discoveries. Collaborative research. Synergy and innovation meet location and intent at FIU’s Center for Translational Science. Located next to the Cleveland Clinic hospital and research facility in Port St. Lucie, FIU researchers and student scientists are partnering with Cleveland Clinic and other entities to move forward the delivery of life-impacting therapeutics in the most efficient manner possible. Researchers at CTS are studying the following broad research and discovery themes: Lung vascular and airway disease; brain injury and aging; environmental medicine; inflammation, infection and immunity; bioinformatics; and mitochondria and metabolism.

In the past decade among public R1 universities for research expenditure growth

ONE-OF-A-KIND RESEARCH FACILITIES

The Wall of Wind research and testing facility – one of only eight National Science Foundation-supported experimental facilities in the country – is the largest and most powerful university research facility of its kind, capable of simulating Category 5 hurricane winds.

AREAS OF RESEARCH

TOP 20 U.S. Public University for Patents

$848M Proposals submitted FY 2021

EXCELLENCE

• Environmental Resilience

• Brain Health

• Childhood Mental Health

• Cybersecurity

• Disaster Mitigation

$310M Awards received FY 2021

$1B Research expenditures

Last five years

• Forensics

• Health Disparities

• Latin American Studies

• Public Humanities

• STEM Education

107 Invention disclosures FY 2021

74 Patent applications filed FY 2021

The Aquarius Reef Base is the only undersea research laboratory in the world.

The men's soccer team exults in its capture of the 2021 Conference USA regular season championship after knocking off No. 1-ranked Marshall at home.

PANTHER PRIDE 8

17 NCAA Division I-A sports programs

Consecutive conference titles earned by women’s swimming and diving, the most by any athletic program in Conference USA history

The women of swimming and diving get it done in the pool and out, perennially winning the Conference USA championship while earning the highest GPA across all sports (a 3.61 in the fall of 2021).

The freshman tennis tandem of Yasmine Kabbaj, right, and Ines Bekrar started the 2021 season red-hot with back-to-back victories while, overall, the team completed its ninth consecutive winning season.

On the field and in the classroom, FIU student-athletes go all-out in pursuit of excellence. More than 420 athletes compete in NCAA Division I-A sports programs.

13

Number of programs that exceeded an average GPA of 3.0 in 2021-22

70 Conference titles

8

Number of teams that exceeded an average GPA of 3.5 in 2021-22

52 NCAA tournament appearances

123

All-American honors earned

#PawsUp

WOMEN’S TEAMS

Basketball

Cross Country/Track Golf

Soccer

Softball

Swimming & Diving Tennis

Volleyball Beach Volleyball

MEN’S TEAMS

Baseball Basketball Cross Country/Track Football Soccer

Junior running back Lexington Joseph (#8) celebrates with teammates after scoring a touchdown in FIU’s thrilling 38-37 overtime victory in the team’s 2022 season opener against Bryant.

Sam Ebanks ‘20 soars over a hurdle for the Panthers.

Trejon Jacob ‘20 dribbles past an FAU defender during an intrastate showdown at FIU’s Ocean Bank Convocation Center.

PANTHER SPIRIT

FIU IS COMMITTED TO PROVIDING THE HIGHEST QUALITY EDUCATIONAL AND EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE TO OUR STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF IN A NURTURING AND SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT. The university is committed to ensuring that instruction and services are delivered in a manner that reflects and supports diversity as it relates to gender, socioeconomic status, gender identity, race, ethnicity, physical and mental ability, nationality, military status, sexual orientation, spirituality and cultural identity.

INVESTING IN GROWTH

Recent and upcoming additions to our built environment are in support of FIU’s commitment to student success.

TAMIAMI HALL

• 299,530 gsf with 697 beds

• Completed Fall 2022

• $98.4M

HONORS COLLEGE

• 45,200 gsf

• Completion date TBD

• $33.5M

CASACUBA

• 57,876 gsf

• Groundbreaking est. 2026

• $34.3M

ENGINEERING COMPLEX, BUILDING I

• 120,695 gsf

• Completion date 2024

• $75M

• Construction of Building II will follow completion of Building I

CONFERENCE HOTEL & ALUMNI CENTER

• Completion date TBD

TRISH AND DAN BELL CHAPEL/EAST LOOP ROAD REALIGNMENT

• 12,659 gsf

• Completion date December 2024

• $15.4M

SIPA PHASE II

• 84,858 gsf

• Completed 2023

• $39.8M

LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE

As of February 20, 2023

State of Florida

The Honorable Ron DeSantis, Governor

The Honorable Jeanette Nuñez ’94, ’98, Lieutenant Governor

The Honorable Ashley Moody, Attorney General

The Honorable Jimmy Patronis, Chief Financial Officer

The Honorable Wilton Simpson, Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services

State University System of Florida Board of Governors

Brian Lamb, Chair

Eric Silagy, Vice-Chair

Ray Rodrigues, Chancellor

Manny Diaz, Jr., Commissioner of Education

Timothy M. Cerio

Aubrey Edge

Patricia Frost

Nimna Gabadage

Edward Haddock

Ken Jones

Darlene Luccio Jordan

Alan Levine

Charles H. Lydecker

Craig Mateer

Deanna Michael

Jose Oliva

Steven M. Scott

Florida International University Board of Trustees 2022-23

Dean C. Colson ’09, Chair

Rogelio Tovar ’92, ’94, Vice Chair

Cesar L. Alvarez

Jose J. Armas

Carlos A. Duart ’94, ‘99

Natasha Lowell

T. Gene Prescott

Chanel T. Rowe ‘14

Marc D. Sarnoff

Deanne Butchey, Faculty Member Chair, FIU Faculty Senate

Cristhofer E. Lugo, Student Member President, Student Government

Florida International University Administration

Kenneth A. Jessell, President

Elizabeth Béjar ‘98, Provost, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer

Aime Martinez ’96, ’99, CPA, Interim Chief Financial Officer & Vice President, Finance and Administration

Andrés G. Gil ’86, Senior Vice President for Research and Economic Development, Dean of the University Graduate School & Professor, Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work

El pagnier K. Hudson, Senior Vice President, Human Resources & Vice Provost, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Howard R. Lipman, Senior Vice President, University Advancement & Chief Executive Officer, FIU Foundation Inc.

Michelle L. Palacio ’03, Senior Vice President, Strategic Communications, Government and External Affairs

Robert Sackstein, Senior Vice President, Global Medical Affairs

Kevin B. Coughlin Jr., Vice President, Enrollment Management and Services

Robert Grillo ’91, Vice President, Information Technology & Chief Information Officer

Javier I. Marqués ’92, ’96, Vice President, Operations and Safety & FIU Chief of Staff

Pablo G. Ortiz ’91, Vice President, Regional and World Locations & Vice Provost, Biscayne Bay Campus

Charlie Andrews ’94, ’14 Interim Vice President for Student Affairs

Bridgette Cram ’17, Interim Vice President for Innovative Education and Student Success

Carlos B. Castillo ’88, General Counsel, Office of the General Counsel

Scott Carr, Director, Intercollegiate Athletics

FY 2022 OPERATIONS BUDGET Total Expenditures $1.7 Billion

ENDOWMENT $276 MILLION

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